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100			_aThomas, Pradip, _91661994 _eauthor
245			_aThe politics of digital India : _bbetween local compulsions and transnational pressures / _cPradip Ninan Thomas.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bOxford University Press, _c2019.
300			_axvi, 231 p.
520			_a"Transforming India into a digital state has been an objective of successive governments in India. However, the digital, by its very nature, is a capricious, multi-dimensional entity. Its operationalization across multiple sectors in India has highlighted the fact that the digital compact with publics in India is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, devices such as mobile phones have enabled access and efficiencies, and on the other, they have increased the scope for surveillance capitalism and the expansion of governmentality. The digital is at the same time a resource, commodity, and process that is absolutely fundamental to most if not all productive forces across multiple sectors.As a part of the Media Dynamics in South Asia series, this volume explores the making of digital India and specifically deals with the contradictions of an imperfect democracy, internal compulsions, and external pressures that continue to play crucial roles in the shaping of the same. Mindful of the key roles played by political economy and context and based on conversations with theory and practice, it makes a case for critical understanding of the digital embrace in India."--
650			_aDigital media--India. _91662972
650			_aDigital communication--Political aspects--India. _91662973
650			_aDigital communication--Economic aspects--India. _91662974
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